As the Republican National Convention kicks off a rain-induced truncated schedule, the Obama stalwarts (and even some who aren’t) in the main stream media want you to know just how desperately Mitt Romney needs this to be perfect.

Mitt Romney enters the most important week of his political career dogged by a nasty tropical storm but hopeful it will pass in time for a circle of friends and supporters to give his presidential campaign the powerful lift it has been seeking all summer.

For eight days, the efforts of Republicans to highlight Mitt Romney’s character and accomplishments have taken a back seat to a series of distractions – first the comments about rape and abortion by Rep. Todd Akin, the party’s Senate candidate in Missouri, and more recently, the threat of a hurricane headed for the Gulf Coast.

The Romney/Ryan campaign has had to play defense over Akin because the MSM makes sure that isolated cases of crazy on the Republican side are portrayed as representative of the whole while Democrats who wander far off script are isolated cases. That’s the way it’s been for decades and the campaign has handled it fairly well so far. Both Romney and Ryan were quick to ask Akin to step down, which he still refuses to do.

Just how rough are things in reality for Mitt Romney heading into this convention that he allegedly needs to define himself?

First, the GOP establishment and Tea Party activists who weren’t originally thrilled with having Romney as the nominee are getting along quite nicely, thank you.

And then there’s this little gem. Bear in mind that this poll has a heavy Democrat skew (D+9).

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Romney at 47 percent among registered voters and Obama at 46 percent

Within the margin of error, yes, but definitely good news for Team Romney given the leanings of the poll’s sample.

Yes, conventions are important for publicity but 8.3% unemployment and debt that’s about to hit $16 trillion won’t be washed away from the voters’ minds very easily by any storm, whether it be natural or a media creation.

Stephen Kruiser is a professional comedian and writer who has also been a conservative political activist for over two decades. A co-founder of the first Los Angeles Tea Party, Kruiser often speaks to grassroots groups around America and has had the great honor of traveling around the world entertaining U.S. troops.

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Jaladhi

American media has become the most dishonest media in the world worthy of being called yellow journalism of a banana republic!! the last four years have really peeled of the mask from their face and revealed what they really are. They are not worthy of being called journalists – they are surrogates and sycophants of the present administration!!

You don’t have to travel to have international flavor in Tampa this week. We have China style security, and Russian style state-sponsored media.
Thank goodness the strippers appear to be real Americans!

Watching and listening to the MSM in America today is a real throwback to the old Soviet Union Pravda days. Does anybody really believe what they say? When I watch them it’s with sadness and pity, not respect. You no longer acquire facts or knowledge on a subject but views slanted by ideology.

The epitome of the democratic woman’s mindset were the ones dressed up as vaginas in support of women’s rights, truly a bunch of dumb —- you know what’s.

So, what if Paul Ryan was delving into the federal budget when he was still in high school? I didn’t peek at a federal budget until I was out of college. Yet there is no way I would have cast the votes in Congress that Ryan has through the years. Ryan voted for TARP, the auto bailouts, No Child Left Behind, the Medicare prescription drug benefit, the Bush stimulus, the Patriot Act, and military adventurism abroad. No policymaker is perfect, but no one with a libertarian bone in their body could have supported these policies.